That night while staying with friends, he watched TV news coverage of the fire and saw his home burning. There was no doubt about it. The forty-year old wooden structure was kindling for the fire.

“The good news," he says, "is that we had closure immediately.”

Sid and his wife were renting the house. The home was a new start in their lives after downsizing and leaving Atlanta. The Black Forest fire burned everything that they'd kept from their previous life, except their lives.